Marcello Morandini - Morandini - 2020

New with film - Resulting from extensive cataloging, archiving, and authentication documentation of works created by Marcello Morandini from 1964 to 2018, the reasoned catalog constitutes the first publishing project of the Fondazione Marcello Morandini, established in 2016 by the artist himself and thanks to the generous contribution of two important collectors. Their dream was to create an open, accessible, and inclusive exhibition space where his works could be showcased.
For completeness and scientific accuracy, the reasoned catalog unmistakably traces the artistic path of Marcello Morandini, becoming an essential and up-to-date tool for understanding his work.
The volume opens with a critical text by curator Marco Meneguzzo and an essay by Serge Lemoine, a French art historian who has always followed Morandini's artistic journey. It includes a critical anthology of texts that accompanied the numerous exhibitions where the artist showcased his research and studies on movement in space—twisting, tension, expansion, overlay—translated into the world of geometry through the use of two-dimensional and three-dimensional language, with the certainty of mathematics.
The section dedicated to cataloging is the heart of the volume and presents each work through photographic documentation and a technical and bibliographic-exhibition sheet. The curatorial choice was to divide the corpus into decades, within which works, drawings, multiples, and projects are listed in chronological order.
The succession of decades is marked by an introductory text by Morandini himself and large-format images that reproduce selected works. They narrate his world of forms, which range from graphics to sculpture, from architecture to design, in an absolutely original, coherent, and recognizable way.
Complete this section with the updated set of materials including biography, list of exhibitions, and bibliography.
Marco Meneguzzo, who has been a professor at the Brera Academy for over thirty years, an art critic, and exhibition curator, has published books and monographs on modern and contemporary art.